Numbers 7-12 Pulteney Buildings (Terrace)

Numbers 7-12 Pulteney Buildings form a terrace of six houses built around 1805 in Weymouth. Constructed of Flemish bond brickwork with slate roofs, the terrace is set at an obtuse angle to and slightly forward from Devonshire Buildings to the left. A straight joint in the brickwork is visible between numbers 7 and 8, suggesting an earlier construction phase with a subsequent infill.

The building is three storeys high, with an attic and a basement, and each house features two windows on each level. The windows are largely original glazing-bar sashes, with splayed painted lintels and stone sills. Dormers are present in the roof, with varying pane configurations – 6-pane and 9-pane on the second floor. A two-storey, flat-roofed oriel bow is located to the left, featuring an 8:12:8-pane arrangement, while a 12-pane sash sits above an arched doorway leading to a six-panel door with a plain fanlight, accessed via four or five stone steps with nosings. Basement windows consist of paired 4-pane sashes, except for numbers 7 and 12, which have wider 24-pane sashes. A stone cornice with a bold cyma mould and blocking course tops the building, supporting a parapet, with paired stacks located on the party walls between the houses. Square section wooden railings enclose the basement areas, returning to the level of the doorways.

The rear elevations remain largely unchanged. Originally each house had a small gabled service wing, which survives on numbers 9 and 10, with modifications and extensions to the others. Single raking dormers are present to the rear, with numbers 9 and 10 featuring sash windows, and number 12 having a wider dormer with a paired sash. Laylights are found to the left of some rear windows, and a 12-pane sash sits above a canted oriel, which is extended up to the second floor in number 10 and down to the ground floor in number 12. A deep 15-pane stair window is located to the left of each oriel.

The interior has not been inspected. The terrace retains its original exterior appearance and, together with the adjacent Devonshire Buildings, provides a significant historical group along the Esplanade.